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it tells us that the introduction of genetic variation allows us it to adapt to a changing environment and gives us the wonderful diversity we see in a room full of peel like this. although they can cause disease they also allow us to adapt. we should be thanksful for them. >> the natural context is how much do we differ. if the mutations are happen happening every time we reproduce how much is there between humans? identical twins differ at essentially zero d.n.a. bases. not quite true but close enough. they are identical at the d.n. allyl. unrelated humans? do i have any guesses as to how much an unrelated pair of humans differs at the d.n.a. level. one in what? well it is not very much. one in a thousand. so at the d.n. allyl, the most fundamental unit of our biology, we are 99.9% identical. there is an important message right there. if we compare ourselves to our nearest biological relative the chimp we are 99% identical to the chimp for d.n.a. sequencing we can line up and compare. we are more different from mice and thank goodness if you compare us to broccoli we are mostly diffe
it tells us that the introduction of genetic variation allows us it to adapt to a changing environment and gives us the wonderful diversity we see in a room full of peel like this. although they can cause disease they also allow us to adapt. we should be thanksful for them. >> the natural context is how much do we differ. if the mutations are happen happening every time we reproduce how much is there between humans? identical twins differ at essentially zero d.n.a. bases. not quite true...
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as i said, our changing operational environment demands new approaches. urban terrain will need to be the dominant were fighting environment, bringing with it a unique set of challenges. those challenges, i believe, deal with precision. , mountain, of desert bejungle warfare, you could less precise in terms of the application of military power. in the day and age of urban , and we see this in the these werehdad, urban areas. as we see more of the population an urbanization effect, the precision of our capability will be key. the other way i describe it is understanding. it should be a principal of war. one of the lessons learned from , ourast decade of war failure to understand the operation environment led to a mismatch of resources and capabilities apply to that environment. as we move into a different operational environment, and this is one that is emergent, and we have to have a better and we will have to be very precise applying management. it is everything we do. in terms of taking it back to find deficiencies and need a new threat environment at t
as i said, our changing operational environment demands new approaches. urban terrain will need to be the dominant were fighting environment, bringing with it a unique set of challenges. those challenges, i believe, deal with precision. , mountain, of desert bejungle warfare, you could less precise in terms of the application of military power. in the day and age of urban , and we see this in the these werehdad, urban areas. as we see more of the population an urbanization effect, the precision...
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what is going on in this high-stakes highly restless claims processing environment? collis employee focused on the development of issues than what is working and what's not working? also, much here but the folks at best edition of the out sub inspector general to look at specific complicated claims on an annual basis within the regional office. reviews of va oig reports as well as recent veteran testimonials are alarming. in the past four years at least 19 regional offices have been inspected by the oig on more than half the decrease in a claims processing accuracy with respect to commit brain injuries. the reports indicate the oig visit to the 10 regional office evidenced more errors than the initial visit. with respect to temporary 100% disabled claims, while improvements have been made on half of the offices are in fact it still could not process 50% of these claims correctly on their second inspection. there's still no other word for this but i'm except the bull feared at this time, i would like to welcome our witnesses. we will have three panels here today. curr
what is going on in this high-stakes highly restless claims processing environment? collis employee focused on the development of issues than what is working and what's not working? also, much here but the folks at best edition of the out sub inspector general to look at specific complicated claims on an annual basis within the regional office. reviews of va oig reports as well as recent veteran testimonials are alarming. in the past four years at least 19 regional offices have been inspected...
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first, the mission is to protect human health and the environment. as someone who worked in public health before i entered politics, i can think of no mission of the federal government that is more important or noble than not. as a member of congress, i should be doing all it can to encourage epa attempts to carry out a challenging mission. i think too often epa has made a target for funding cuts and his leadership said jack did to harassment and denigration. unfortunately, ira committee has not been immune from employing these type x. mr. chairman, i am a texan and i'm no stranger to the oil and gas industries in the economic benefits it can bring war to the pollution and health and environmental impacts those industries can also bring. i know the epa's actions have consequences for companies sometimes negative. i have also noted epa's actions have important consequences for help of our constituents. especially those who are young or elderly. those consequences have been very positive indeed over the 40 years the epa has been in existence. we all wa
first, the mission is to protect human health and the environment. as someone who worked in public health before i entered politics, i can think of no mission of the federal government that is more important or noble than not. as a member of congress, i should be doing all it can to encourage epa attempts to carry out a challenging mission. i think too often epa has made a target for funding cuts and his leadership said jack did to harassment and denigration. unfortunately, ira committee has...
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but the idea social media environments haven't occurred before is unprecedenteunprecede. the social reactions you get to social media that it will tr trivalize debate and that is are the issues they are raising today. >> there are things you can do on the internet that you couldn't do with the pamphlets but the similarities are close enough week we can learn. >> you write tat today's platform represent a transitional stage like aol and compuserve. >> if you look at the way e-mail or web publishing works, if you don't like the way google is looking at your mail, you can set up your own web server thaz that runs the open standards and plug it in. similarly, if you don't want a company like wordpress to host your blog, you can set up your own standards and set it up. it is done in the centralized way and owned by large companies. this is very different. it is not open standard base and distributed. so i wonder if that is a permanent state of affairs. this is what happened with aol and compuserve. it looks like they owned access to the consumer internet, but people bought str
but the idea social media environments haven't occurred before is unprecedenteunprecede. the social reactions you get to social media that it will tr trivalize debate and that is are the issues they are raising today. >> there are things you can do on the internet that you couldn't do with the pamphlets but the similarities are close enough week we can learn. >> you write tat today's platform represent a transitional stage like aol and compuserve. >> if you look at the way...
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and this is, you know, denounced by some people because it's such an alluring environment. you never know who you're going to meet. people end up spending hours in the coffee shop. of but it turns out to be extremely fertile as a sort of hotbed of intellectual innovation. you get the scientists of the rainbow coffee house set up the royal society, and isaac newton writes his great work in order to settle a coffeehouse argument about the nature of gravity. lloyd's turned into lloyd's of london, the first insurance market. jonathan's coffeehouse turns into the london stock exchange. so coffeehouses turned out to be in the great place where you mix people and ideas up, and tsa what the internet does by allowing people of different places to meet virtually and to exchange ideas. >> host: tom standage, when you look back to 1969, that first internet message to today, the growth and the change in what we know as the internet, is it faster than in the past? >> guest: yes. it's definitely faster. so i have to, you know, be straightforward about this. modern social media is, obvious
and this is, you know, denounced by some people because it's such an alluring environment. you never know who you're going to meet. people end up spending hours in the coffee shop. of but it turns out to be extremely fertile as a sort of hotbed of intellectual innovation. you get the scientists of the rainbow coffee house set up the royal society, and isaac newton writes his great work in order to settle a coffeehouse argument about the nature of gravity. lloyd's turned into lloyd's of london,...
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so, as i said, are changing operational environment demands new approaches. urban terrain will continue to be the predominant war fighting internment, bringing with a unique set of challenges. those challenges to my belief, deal with what i call precision. you know, and the days of desert , mountain, or jumbo warfare you could be less precise kaj especially in terms of, you know, the application of military power. in the day and age there are red warfare -- and we definitely see this coming even in the last decade as we work, you know, operate in places like flu shell or missile will or baghdad or kandahar, jalal about, these were urban areas, generally urban areas. as we see more and more of the population moving to end of organization affect, precision of our capability is going to be key, and the other way that i would describe it is understanding, you know, understanding should be a principle of war, as i'm concerned like economy of force or mastermind stand in the operational environment, one of the principal lessons learned from the last decade of war t
so, as i said, are changing operational environment demands new approaches. urban terrain will continue to be the predominant war fighting internment, bringing with a unique set of challenges. those challenges to my belief, deal with what i call precision. you know, and the days of desert , mountain, or jumbo warfare you could be less precise kaj especially in terms of, you know, the application of military power. in the day and age there are red warfare -- and we definitely see this coming...
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we love the environment on you can actually achieve results. that's the great thing of being a governor. i look at so many of the members of the utah state legislature who are here. and with each one of them, i can tell you stories about how we were able to get things done and the can-do attitude. it was remarkable. joe then went on to the senate and became terribly frustrated with the culture that existed on capitol hill, something that evan knows a lot about. i went on to china to become our senior diplomat running the embassy there. and we kind of regrouped a little bit later when joe and nancy jacobson, who was the power behind no labels initially came and said would you like to become part of the o labels movement. what on earth is no labels? is it a third party effort to kind of ship wreck the republicans and the democrats. is it a bunch of mushy moderates to get together to take over the world? none of the above. come to find that it is a group that respects the fact that we have a two-party system. they are endeavoring to change the cen
we love the environment on you can actually achieve results. that's the great thing of being a governor. i look at so many of the members of the utah state legislature who are here. and with each one of them, i can tell you stories about how we were able to get things done and the can-do attitude. it was remarkable. joe then went on to the senate and became terribly frustrated with the culture that existed on capitol hill, something that evan knows a lot about. i went on to china to become our...
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tells us that these mutations the introduction of genetic variation allows us to adapt to changing environment and what gives us the wonderful physical diversity we see in a roomful of people like this. although mutations can cause disease they also allow us to adapt and we should be thankful for them. the natural question that comes up in this context is how much do we differ? at these mutations are happening every time we produce how much variation is there among humans? if we look at identical twins these are nature's clones. identical twins differ at essentially zero dna aces. it's not quite true but it's close enough. they are identical at the dna level. if we look at unrelated humans do i have any guesses as to how much an unrelated pair of humans differs at the dna level black swan and what? well it's not very much. one and 1000. at the dna level this most fundamental unit of our biology, we are 99.9% identical. there's an important message right there. if we compare ourselves to our nearest biological relative to champ we are 99% identical to the gym. this is for dna sequences that we
tells us that these mutations the introduction of genetic variation allows us to adapt to changing environment and what gives us the wonderful physical diversity we see in a roomful of people like this. although mutations can cause disease they also allow us to adapt and we should be thankful for them. the natural question that comes up in this context is how much do we differ? at these mutations are happening every time we produce how much variation is there among humans? if we look at...
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environment. what you can see here is a professor, dr. smith. he is teaching four classes and he is running competitions in his classes. he can see exactly how the students are taking in the insights and concepts they are learning in class. angela livingston is trading on the platform and can see how her traits are performing and also how her friends are performing as well. here you can see angela is ranked seventh in the paper trading competition versus matt maguire who is in first place. you can click on matt's name and see what he is doing to outperform her. there is a learning curve. there are challenges we're facing in how young people are thinking about the markets and of innovative solutions that can help them think about things differently. >> thank you. good stuff. [applause] >> i have got a couple of minutes where i get to throw some not-so-softball questions. i'd told them -- i lied to them. i told them that i was going to throw them all softballs and i decided that is no fun. ok. >> i
environment. what you can see here is a professor, dr. smith. he is teaching four classes and he is running competitions in his classes. he can see exactly how the students are taking in the insights and concepts they are learning in class. angela livingston is trading on the platform and can see how her traits are performing and also how her friends are performing as well. here you can see angela is ranked seventh in the paper trading competition versus matt maguire who is in first place. you...
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welcoming, safe, and collaborative environments. you cannot show me a school that works or a district or a state or a country that works where the notion of collaboration as opposed to competition, the notion of a welcoming, safe environment so that schools are central to the community, are not the dominant theory as opposed to testing and sanctioning. that is what we are trying to do. work with communities, solutions that are aligned with what communities need. we must rate neighborhood schools and try to make sure that public education is a hallmark of democracy and a propeller of our economy. most importantly, we must really make sure that we figure out how to enable all kids to have the opportunity to not only dream big, but achieve them. >> thank you. let me ask you one or two and then we will go to kimberly to start. let me ask you about the common core standards. you said you think that obamacare is bad and the implementation of the common core is far worse. who is to blame and anyone stepping up to fix this? >> i am not a bi
welcoming, safe, and collaborative environments. you cannot show me a school that works or a district or a state or a country that works where the notion of collaboration as opposed to competition, the notion of a welcoming, safe environment so that schools are central to the community, are not the dominant theory as opposed to testing and sanctioning. that is what we are trying to do. work with communities, solutions that are aligned with what communities need. we must rate neighborhood...
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what is going on in this high-stakes highly specialized claims process environment? how has employee training focused on the development of these issues and what is working and what is not working? also they want to hear about the focus investigations of the das office of inspector general who looked at specific complicatcomplicat ed claims on an annual basis within the regional office, previews fda reports as well as the recent testimony are alarming. in the past four years at least 19 regional offices have been inspected by the oig. of those more than half saw a decrease in the claims processing accuracy with respect to traumatic brain injuries. this means the reports indicate that the a's oig second visit to the regional office evidence more errors than the initial visit did. with respect to temporary 100% disabled claims while improvements have been made on behalf of the offices inspected still could not process 50% of these claims correctly on their second inspectioinspectio inspection. there are still no other word for this is unacceptable. at this time i would
what is going on in this high-stakes highly specialized claims process environment? how has employee training focused on the development of these issues and what is working and what is not working? also they want to hear about the focus investigations of the das office of inspector general who looked at specific complicatcomplicat ed claims on an annual basis within the regional office, previews fda reports as well as the recent testimony are alarming. in the past four years at least 19...
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if you cite to the political environment as your justification? congress isn't doing what i want. i may suffer political damage so i'm going to do it anyway. i think in your testimony you did make some good points. i will give you that. you didn't cite the justification for delaying the mandate. he was asked about a press conference and he said in the normal political environment i would call the speaker and say this doesn't go to the essence of the law and we would've delay for a year but the but there wasn't a political environment on quote unquote obamacare. i think that is totally outlandish of the explanation and even more because congress by the time he made that statement had already passed the bill to delay the employer mandate precisely for the reason the president suggested. let me ask another question because professor turley, i appreciate her testimony and you cite above examples of the founding fathers. mr. lazarus you made the point that it doesn't mean that the rest of these guys say. original founding fathers understood, but you di
if you cite to the political environment as your justification? congress isn't doing what i want. i may suffer political damage so i'm going to do it anyway. i think in your testimony you did make some good points. i will give you that. you didn't cite the justification for delaying the mandate. he was asked about a press conference and he said in the normal political environment i would call the speaker and say this doesn't go to the essence of the law and we would've delay for a year but the...
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that's not easy to do in today's environment. >> i would concur with my colleagues and don't have anything to add. >> thank you very much. thank you, mr. chairman. >> i might make one comment in the refer to the plant in southern california and has 33% renewable mandate. i was talking to one of the ceos how one of the major utilities out there. as say build new transmission lines to bring in renewable power to where they need it, they're getting in some instances specific instructions to going underground on the transmission lines, which races are technical issues. the ceo in wrong to me that the mileage they are going underground is costing his utility $100 million a mile. so we are talking about some costly situations in some cases. this time to recognize the gentleman from texas, mr. olson for five minutes. >> i think the chair and i assure you i'll take only a maximum of four hours -- four minutes and 59 seconds of my time. >> witnesses. chairwoman lafleur, commissioner moeller, commissioner norris, welcome, happy holidays. i have one question about the tax credit. poster with you, com
that's not easy to do in today's environment. >> i would concur with my colleagues and don't have anything to add. >> thank you very much. thank you, mr. chairman. >> i might make one comment in the refer to the plant in southern california and has 33% renewable mandate. i was talking to one of the ceos how one of the major utilities out there. as say build new transmission lines to bring in renewable power to where they need it, they're getting in some instances specific...
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welcoming, safe and collaborative environments. you can't show we a school that works or a district or a state or a cub that works -- country that works where that notion of collaboration as opposed to competition, that notion of welcoming and safe environment so that schools are central to communities are not the dominant theory as as opposed to testingd sanctioning. and so that's what we are trying to do, work with community, bottom-up solutions that are aligned with what communities need, great neighborhood public schools and, ultimately, really trying to make sure that every -- that public education is an anchor of our democracy, a to pell hour of our economy and probably most important, really, really make sure that we give and figure out how to enable all kids to have the opportunity to not only dream their dreams, but achieve them. >> and we are live this morning awaiting remarks from treasury secretary jacob lew on implementation of the dodd-frank financial regulations law. he will be introduced by former fdic chief sheila
welcoming, safe and collaborative environments. you can't show we a school that works or a district or a state or a cub that works -- country that works where that notion of collaboration as opposed to competition, that notion of welcoming and safe environment so that schools are central to communities are not the dominant theory as as opposed to testingd sanctioning. and so that's what we are trying to do, work with community, bottom-up solutions that are aligned with what communities need,...
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army, the environs of the united states military academy in west point in 2011. and if you go through my paper, i make some arguments about the logical implications of gates' vision. >> so, gordon, i would agree with the fact that the word "shape," shape the international environment means all things to all people. so for me, the most important elements are deterring adversaries from mischief or aggression, reassuring arter ins and allies of our -- partners and allies of our commitment to them, and, you know, working with allies and partners to build their capacity to contribute to regional and international security. you know, i agree with a lot of phil's comments about readiness for what. we can't predict specifics, but i think the mission manies of the u.s -- missions of the u.s. military have been fairly consistent there being able to deter and defeat aggression against our allies, crisis response, counterterrorism ask so forth on down the list. that's just a sampling, not the full list. to mitzi's point about, you know, again, i agree with the importance of
army, the environs of the united states military academy in west point in 2011. and if you go through my paper, i make some arguments about the logical implications of gates' vision. >> so, gordon, i would agree with the fact that the word "shape," shape the international environment means all things to all people. so for me, the most important elements are deterring adversaries from mischief or aggression, reassuring arter ins and allies of our -- partners and allies of our...
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the emergency issues are somewhat different because we have to try to set standards in environment of incomplete information. we don't have the benefit of decades of experience and we know challenges are evolving. but it still income with honesty tried to develop meaningful cost effective regulation that we can enforce in an environment of imperfect knowledge. two weeks ago the commission approved version five of the article infrastructure protection standard that covered the bulk electric grid against cybersecurity incidents. they are not perfect. we did ask some question as we approved them, things we wanted modified but they represent substantial step forward from the protections that were in place before. we've also started a rulemaking to require standards to protect against geomagnetic disturbances that can be caused by solar storms and human actions. a real example of high impactful frequency threats to reliability that we need to get ready for before they happen. finally, i want to touch on the subject that congressman waxman raised, the physical security of the aspects that m
the emergency issues are somewhat different because we have to try to set standards in environment of incomplete information. we don't have the benefit of decades of experience and we know challenges are evolving. but it still income with honesty tried to develop meaningful cost effective regulation that we can enforce in an environment of imperfect knowledge. two weeks ago the commission approved version five of the article infrastructure protection standard that covered the bulk electric grid...
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and from that demanding combat environment this kandahar, we transitioned two years ago to operation attention to train -- to the training mission devoted to supporting nato's main strategic objective, that of preparing the afghan national security forces to take responsibility for afghanistan's security by themselves. since 2011 canada has been the second largest contributor to the nato training mission after the united states. and and as kathleen said, roughly 950 of our troops focused on giving the afghans the tools they need not only to fight the taliban and affiliates, but also to train their own forces in this effect. indeed, afghan forces are now not only planning and leading most security operations across the nation, but 90% of all military training in afghanistan is now being conducted by the afghans themselves. that's a strategic and operational success, one that will pay dividends over the long term by helping insure that afghan forces can sustain their progress and ultimately help prevent afghanistan from ever again becoming a safe haven for terrorists. terrorists that w
and from that demanding combat environment this kandahar, we transitioned two years ago to operation attention to train -- to the training mission devoted to supporting nato's main strategic objective, that of preparing the afghan national security forces to take responsibility for afghanistan's security by themselves. since 2011 canada has been the second largest contributor to the nato training mission after the united states. and and as kathleen said, roughly 950 of our troops focused on...
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that isn't easy to do in today's environment. >> i would conquer with my colleagues. >> thank you mr. chairman. >> i might comment on this you refer to the closing of the nuclear plant in southern california and california is a 33% renewable mandate and i was talking to one of the ceos of one of the major utilities out there and as they build new transmission lines to bring in renewable power to where they need it, they are getting in some instances specific instructions relating to some going underground on the transmission lines which raises a lot of technical issues and the ceo informed me that in the mileage that they are going underground is costing his utility $100 million a mile. so you know, we are talking about some costly situations in some cases. at this time i would recognize the gentleman from texas for five minutes. >> thank the chair for your patience. i will take only a maximum of four hours and four minutes on my time. chairwoman lafleur, commissioner moeller and clark, welcome, happy holidays. i have one question on the tax credit and start with you in the sugar. as
that isn't easy to do in today's environment. >> i would conquer with my colleagues. >> thank you mr. chairman. >> i might comment on this you refer to the closing of the nuclear plant in southern california and california is a 33% renewable mandate and i was talking to one of the ceos of one of the major utilities out there and as they build new transmission lines to bring in renewable power to where they need it, they are getting in some instances specific instructions...
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environment. what you can see it is a professor, dr. smith, he is teaching four classes and he's running competitions in each class. one of them is on futures, one of this is on options trading and he can see exactly how the students are taking the insight and the concept of their learning in class and putting them into practice in living, breathing markets. and i'll show you a view of the student experience. so angela livingstone is trading on the sink or swim platform and she can see, not only how her trader performing but also how her friends performance is as well. so let's say here you can see angela is in a class rank is seven in the paper trading competition versus matt mcguire who is in first place. she can click on his name is exactly what he's doing to outperform her. so there's a learning element along with that. and so i think both what is the and i have both been talking about are the challenges that we are facing relevant to our young people are thinking about the market and innovate
environment. what you can see it is a professor, dr. smith, he is teaching four classes and he's running competitions in each class. one of them is on futures, one of this is on options trading and he can see exactly how the students are taking the insight and the concept of their learning in class and putting them into practice in living, breathing markets. and i'll show you a view of the student experience. so angela livingstone is trading on the sink or swim platform and she can see, not...
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the implementation threatens the safe haven of the flexible work environment for those who depend on it. thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today regarding the health care law and its effects of the business aggregation rules on small businesses like ours. i'm proud and grateful for the responsibility to serve my community in austin texas serving customers. we are committed to working with congress to find solutions that foster growth and truly benefit the communities we serve. >> thank you mr. winstanley. our final witnesses donna baker. she holds an mba from michigan state university and a b.a. in accounting from siena heights university. welcome. >> thank you chairman collins and ranking member velazguez and members of the committee. it's an honor to be here to testify on this subject. i am donna baker. i've been a cpa for 25 years and i've owned my own accounting firm for the last 13 years. i lived and practiced practiced and when lake county michigan which is a very small rural area. on top of owning my own cpa for miles on a small company. i've invested in a re
the implementation threatens the safe haven of the flexible work environment for those who depend on it. thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today regarding the health care law and its effects of the business aggregation rules on small businesses like ours. i'm proud and grateful for the responsibility to serve my community in austin texas serving customers. we are committed to working with congress to find solutions that foster growth and truly benefit the communities we serve....
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they are created by the various political social economic environments. in other words, the lone wolf terrorist do not inherit from other states. they are a part of our society and subjects of the political and economic ideology and religious environments. in other words, many of them share values through the technology through the website and so forth. some operate on one basis of a single attack and some operate on multiple attacks. there were a number of studies that were developed over the years that we are trying to follow on a daily basis and i think that it requires a great deal of interest in terms of radicalization and international society tries to understand what can be done to deal with it. so ultimately the discussion would provide i think the initial context for the discussion and the first speaker as i mentioned is spike bowman who has a very rich background in the government and in the academic community and taking one course now sco w. and one for the interns he is a student in the class so to be paired with a class tomorrow. i think of s
they are created by the various political social economic environments. in other words, the lone wolf terrorist do not inherit from other states. they are a part of our society and subjects of the political and economic ideology and religious environments. in other words, many of them share values through the technology through the website and so forth. some operate on one basis of a single attack and some operate on multiple attacks. there were a number of studies that were developed over the...
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i have dedicated my life to protecting the environment. i see no greater issue and no greater urgency to public health and climate change. -- van climate change -- than climate change. climate change is not just a public health and safety issue. i consider it to be one of the greatest economic challenges of our time as well, which is why i am really looking forward to the trip, and why i was very excited in the summer when president obama spoke so eloquently and so comprehensively about the urgency to act on climate change, when he spoke at georgetown university. it was a speech that i had been hoping for, a president for many years, and i was so proud that it was our president. he showed enormous courage and enormous strength, as well as, he challenged us all to not just acknowledge the science of climate change, to understand that it is real and happening, but to also charge the cabinet to take immediate action. call me biased, but i believe it was his best speeches so far, although he is not done yet, i'm quite sure. he walked through h
i have dedicated my life to protecting the environment. i see no greater issue and no greater urgency to public health and climate change. -- van climate change -- than climate change. climate change is not just a public health and safety issue. i consider it to be one of the greatest economic challenges of our time as well, which is why i am really looking forward to the trip, and why i was very excited in the summer when president obama spoke so eloquently and so comprehensively about the...
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we're in a political environment. we're in an environment when that normal change that occurs every year becomes a big political thing. and we have now the affordable health care act. we have the exchanges all across america, some working well, some not so well. gives people an opportunity for the first time ever to actually be able to shop for insurance. hadn't been able to do that before. if you are working in a company, the employer did the shopping for you. now, a lot of that's going to continue on. but if you're in a small company or ininsured, you can shop for insurance, compare prices and quality and coverages and who's providing the doctor and the hospital. never before was that available. >> host: last question on the subject, and folks are waiting to talk to you as well, but there's been a lot of questions on whether democrats can run on the affordable care act in 2014. republicans say they want to target your district next year. can you run on the affordable care act, and will you? >> guest: i have been a s
we're in a political environment. we're in an environment when that normal change that occurs every year becomes a big political thing. and we have now the affordable health care act. we have the exchanges all across america, some working well, some not so well. gives people an opportunity for the first time ever to actually be able to shop for insurance. hadn't been able to do that before. if you are working in a company, the employer did the shopping for you. now, a lot of that's going to...
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we have have parents involved and engaged in welcoming, safe, collaborative environments, and we have to have the wraparound services because we are the first responders to poverty. and whether that is breakfast, lunch, and dinner, like i saw at the school in cincinnati, or whether it is what we're doing at mcdowell in terms of really wrapping services around all of these schools in the eighth worst county in america, when you do those things, schools succeed. and more important, the nation succeeds. thank you. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> several live events tomorrow morning. jack lew will be at the theitable trust to discuss state of financial reform on c- span 2 at 8:45 eastern. also at 9:30 a.m., members of the house energy and commerce committee on energy and power will hear from federal energy regulatory commissioners. later, on c-span 3, we cover a democratic steering committee hearing on unemployment benefits set to expire at the end of the month. >> in
we have have parents involved and engaged in welcoming, safe, collaborative environments, and we have to have the wraparound services because we are the first responders to poverty. and whether that is breakfast, lunch, and dinner, like i saw at the school in cincinnati, or whether it is what we're doing at mcdowell in terms of really wrapping services around all of these schools in the eighth worst county in america, when you do those things, schools succeed. and more important, the nation...
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i am especially pleased that we have a ministry dedicated to the issue of the environment. its work must impact on many aspects of national activity and address the question of the well-being of society as a whole and the preservation of a healthy environmental future even for generation not yet born. as we began this address, we borrowed the words of ingrid jonker to focus on the plight of the children our country. i would now like to say that the government will, as a matter of urgency, attend to the tragic and complex question of children and juveniles in detention in prison. the basic principle from which we will proceed from now onwards is that we must rescue the children of the nation and ensure that the system of criminal justice must be the very last resort in the case of juvenile offenders. i have therefore issued instructions to the departments concerned, as a matter of urgency, to work out the necessary guidelines which will enable us to empty our prisons of children and to place them in suitable alternative care. this is in addition to an amnesty for various cat
i am especially pleased that we have a ministry dedicated to the issue of the environment. its work must impact on many aspects of national activity and address the question of the well-being of society as a whole and the preservation of a healthy environmental future even for generation not yet born. as we began this address, we borrowed the words of ingrid jonker to focus on the plight of the children our country. i would now like to say that the government will, as a matter of urgency,...
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that doesn't benefit the consumer and doesn't help the environment any. my question is what i am hearing more sensing is not unique to western region yet, the exploration of the number of states, seems to be a potential jurisdictional problem starting to flare up a little bit and one of the ms. so my question is to you is should we be treating ngos as natural gas and allowing the federal government, your group to take care of that? or should we continue having ngos candle at the state level? do you have a position on that? >> haven't thought of the jurisdictional question. it is a good thing to be looking at. there is a lot of trended gas capacity as well as gas being fired because there is not sufficient take aways for the liquids. we only do the pricing for the liquid pipelines under the interstate commerce act but we don't do the signing. i suspect some of the states that think they do the setting very well would not welcome federal fighting. we could do it well because they do it well with gas pipelines but it might not be as popular with the states i
that doesn't benefit the consumer and doesn't help the environment any. my question is what i am hearing more sensing is not unique to western region yet, the exploration of the number of states, seems to be a potential jurisdictional problem starting to flare up a little bit and one of the ms. so my question is to you is should we be treating ngos as natural gas and allowing the federal government, your group to take care of that? or should we continue having ngos candle at the state level? do...
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the environment, behavior, all things influence it. nd it's the inner play, especially for the most common diseases, hypertension, diabetes and so forth, we know that an inner play of genetic predisposition and outside factors. this is where it gets complicated but i really want to emphasize that genomics is a key part of the puzzle but not the only part. william is joining us on the phone with dr. aron green. ahead, please. caller: my question is, i was in vietnam and i caught malaria and i stayed in the fieldhouse for three months. when i came back to fort brag i had a relapse. i'm having problems, i can't and i have these out of whatever growing me and the va cut them out. or kind of after effect side effect or long term effect cause?his >> dr. green you can address the issue. preceded me just will be the expert on that. his is infectious disease and the doctor is a world expert on that. o i would refer to the institute he runs to get those insaogts. what will tell you to make the like malaria, for example, this is very disease, inf
the environment, behavior, all things influence it. nd it's the inner play, especially for the most common diseases, hypertension, diabetes and so forth, we know that an inner play of genetic predisposition and outside factors. this is where it gets complicated but i really want to emphasize that genomics is a key part of the puzzle but not the only part. william is joining us on the phone with dr. aron green. ahead, please. caller: my question is, i was in vietnam and i caught malaria and i...
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forms of communications, what are they exhibit -- whether they originate in a wireline or wireless environment. future of the communications industry, with u.s. telecom head walter mccormick. tonight on "the communicators," at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> i got upset with the president. the, at my mental health first few meetings. then they never showed up. housewalking in the white and i met this woman, one of the press people. , nobody ever covers my meetings. she said, mrs. carter, mental health is not a sexy issue. legislation and mental health systems act of 1980. it passed through congress one month before jimmy was, as he says, involuntary retired from the white house. the incoming president put it on a shelf. it was one of the greatest of women's of my life. >> rosalynn carter, tonight at 9:00 eastern, live on c-span and c-span3. also on c-span radio and c- span.org. upon returning from when he said was his eighth trip to the middle east, john kerry addressed a forum on u.s.-israel posted by the brookings institution's savon for him. he talks about the nuclear deal with the ran, palesti
forms of communications, what are they exhibit -- whether they originate in a wireline or wireless environment. future of the communications industry, with u.s. telecom head walter mccormick. tonight on "the communicators," at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> i got upset with the president. the, at my mental health first few meetings. then they never showed up. housewalking in the white and i met this woman, one of the press people. , nobody ever covers my meetings. she said, mrs....
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and was in areas where there are high threat environments to their soldier. all the things you want an ally to tell us to do. we spent three weeks trying to explain we didn't listen to french or spanish phone calls. it's been our problem. i met with a group from the european union yesterday, there is a bipartisan group going to brussels two weeks, i think, i'm leading a delegation to have the discussions bhap we don't want to have happen is for them to use it as an excuse for excluding american companies to operate in europe. you know, there would be no reason to do that. candidly. , and again, these are not companies run, owned, operated or don't plug-in to them as you might see in the press for our american it companies. it just doesn't happen. we have lays, protections, oversight. i told my european allies, do you realize we send our intelligence services to a corp., a foreign intelligence surveillance court before they can go and listen to a foreigner . another service in the world that send their service to a third party doter see if they can listen to t
and was in areas where there are high threat environments to their soldier. all the things you want an ally to tell us to do. we spent three weeks trying to explain we didn't listen to french or spanish phone calls. it's been our problem. i met with a group from the european union yesterday, there is a bipartisan group going to brussels two weeks, i think, i'm leading a delegation to have the discussions bhap we don't want to have happen is for them to use it as an excuse for excluding american...
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in an environment where our european friends were pushing a peace plan that all of us thought had no chance in the world to succeed, but made us feel like they didn't want to do. we had a policy, we wanted to lift the arms embargo on the bosnians because the bosnian muslims could not get arms and the serbs have all the arms they needed courtesy of slobodan milosevic in serbia and we wanted the authority to use air strikes in early 1993 and warren christopher went to europe and the europeans told him to go home. they had no intention of doing this. so we went home and went back to work. you remember later, they talked about this in the panel, we finally got slowly, slowly, slowly more involved with more permission from our allies to do what i wanted us to do together. we got permission to do humanitarian air drops. that made a difference and leon went to work on sanctions that the un supported. than we had a safe area declared which worked until it didn't and 7,000 people were killed but they would not agree to raise the arms embargo because they said their soldiers would be in danger
in an environment where our european friends were pushing a peace plan that all of us thought had no chance in the world to succeed, but made us feel like they didn't want to do. we had a policy, we wanted to lift the arms embargo on the bosnians because the bosnian muslims could not get arms and the serbs have all the arms they needed courtesy of slobodan milosevic in serbia and we wanted the authority to use air strikes in early 1993 and warren christopher went to europe and the europeans...
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>> quickly, given our media environment for one. and you highlighted another obstacle he's facing and trying perceptions are set. and increasingly, the closer we 2016, the there are going to be more and more fixed. o that's a big challenge the white house faces. >> you want to talk to him about president obama, the legacy, how he's dealing with the most recent issues. healthcare.gov, the rollout of the website. the criticism he received. call.us a the phone lines there. 202-585-3881. democrats, 3880. 202-55-32882. on l take your comments e-mail and facebook and twitter. i want to ask you about the end of october. inattention to detail may hurt the presidential legacy. talk about the inattention to that you're seeing here? disclosures ping you'll recall. he said he was not aware that he united states was eavesdropping on the cell llor's personal phone. the glitches to the website is another that he has acknowledged has not prepared for. may are -- on their own seem relatively minor. of the the perception white house and a management
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the environment, behavior, social aspects of life, all of these things influence it. it is the interplay, especially for more common diseases, hypertension, diabetes. we know that there is an interplay. genetic predisposition but in terminal contributions. -- but environmental contributions, what you are eating, how much you exercise. i want to emphasize that genomics is a key part of this puzzle but it is not the only part. host: from maryland, william is joining us. dr. eric green at nih. -- i wasy question is in vietnam and i can't malaria. i stayed in the field house for three months. when i came back to fort brag, i had a relapse. i am having problems. i cannot hear that well. warts growing out of me. the va cut the amount. -- cut them out. what kind of side effect or long-term effect is this? host: can you adjust that? thet: dr. fauci would be expert on that. this is an infectious disease. i would refer you to the institute that he runs to get the sort of insight. what i will tell you to make the point about a disease like malaria, it is a complicated infectious
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addition to cholera, hepatitis a, fever, monopoly, and other diseases can proliferate in a post-storm environment. there are vaccines for cholera, hepatitis a, but there are no vaccines for the others. and others that might man fest in huge numbers. they are complicated several factors; first, the philippines is undergoing a rainy season. not only increase breeding grounds for mosquitoes and other disease-bearing pests but harmer relief efforts. many residents without shelter will be more us is susceptible to the element. the lack of electricity can mean no cold for medicine that must be refrigerated. including safe blood for women. there are some 90,000 women who are pregnant who lost their ability to go to a venue where safe delivery can occur. we know that some 200 health clinics have been destroyed there. so a venue for them to give birth safely and access to safe blood remains a serious challenge going forward. third, many roads remain uncleared or badly damaged. making transportation for health workers or patients more difficult. fourth, many workers have left the infected areas or died in
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or in a wireless environment. so, yeah, i would say america's future is a wire line future. >> the future of the communications industry with u.s. telecom head walter mccormick tonight on "the communicators" at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> next, house and senate negotiations on a budget compromise. the plan, due by this friday. this is from today's washington journal. >> host: welcome back. we're joined now by bob bixby, executive director of the concord coalition. thank you for joining us this morning. >> guest: you're welcome. >> host: over the weekend it was reported that negotiators are getting closer to a budget deal. tell us what that's likely to look like and what it means. >> guest: well, it looks like what they're going to try to do is replace about two years' worth of the sequestration cuts which was a lower level of cap that went into effect earlier this year and replace the savings so it wouldn't add to the deficit by increasing some government fees and perhaps requiring a higher contribution from fed
or in a wireless environment. so, yeah, i would say america's future is a wire line future. >> the future of the communications industry with u.s. telecom head walter mccormick tonight on "the communicators" at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> next, house and senate negotiations on a budget compromise. the plan, due by this friday. this is from today's washington journal. >> host: welcome back. we're joined now by bob bixby, executive director of the concord coalition....
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there are lovely 19 labor representatives trickled in there to environ less, one consumer group and no partridge or pear tree. seriously. this is a totally unbalanced system with 600 corporate visor's telling our negotiators what they ought to be doing. now how is it that trade agreements can affect our domestic policy? the binding rule in all of our current trade agreements as the following, signatory countries shall insure the conformity of all domestic laws, regulations, and administrative procedures. that is to say that all existing and future u.s. laws must be conformed to the terms in the trade agreement. consider the agreement now that president obama is seeking fast track for the trans-pacific partnership. twenty-nine chapters, the text just of the non-tariff stuff is the size of very large phone book, and only five chapters are about trade. twenty-four chapters of rewriting u.s. law to the back door of secretive closed-door 600 corporate adviser influence trade negotiations. this form of diplomatic legislating has been used by democratic and republican person to tap presidents
there are lovely 19 labor representatives trickled in there to environ less, one consumer group and no partridge or pear tree. seriously. this is a totally unbalanced system with 600 corporate visor's telling our negotiators what they ought to be doing. now how is it that trade agreements can affect our domestic policy? the binding rule in all of our current trade agreements as the following, signatory countries shall insure the conformity of all domestic laws, regulations, and administrative...
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the environment, the behavior, the social aspects of life, all of these things are influenced and it is the interplay, especially for these were common diseases like hypertension and diabetes and so forth. we know that there is an interplay and a genetic predisposition of what you are eating and how much exercise you are getting and so on and so forth. so this is where it gets very complicated, but i want to make sure that i emphasize that the genomic is a key part of this puzzle. >> host: we have doctor eric green, please go ahead with your question or comment. >> caller: hello, i was in vietnam and i caught malaria and when i came back to fort bragg, i had a relapse. i am having problems and i cannot hear that well. and i have these warts or what whatever growing out of me and the va cut it out. what kind of long-term effect will this have? >> the person that spoke with me on these interviews would really be the expert on that. this is an expert on infectious disease and we have a world expert on that. we have the institute that he runs, hoping to get those insights and what i will
the environment, the behavior, the social aspects of life, all of these things are influenced and it is the interplay, especially for these were common diseases like hypertension and diabetes and so forth. we know that there is an interplay and a genetic predisposition of what you are eating and how much exercise you are getting and so on and so forth. so this is where it gets very complicated, but i want to make sure that i emphasize that the genomic is a key part of this puzzle. >>...
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wireline firelight -- environments that really connect us all. i would say that americans future is the wireline future. >> tonight on the communicators, on c-span2. >> i got upset with the they called itse my mental health the first few meetings i had. woman who is one of the press people. said, nobody ever covers my meetings, she said it is not a sexy issue. we toured the country, found out what was needed in terms of the mental, and past health systems act of 1980. it passed through congress one month before he involuntarily retired from the white house, and the incoming president never a bulleted. -- never and limited it. it was a difficult time. >> first lady roselyn carter, tonight on c-span radio, c-span and c-span three. >> remarks now from israeli foreign minister avigdor lieberman. palestinianon the peace talks. he was iterative friday by washington post columnist david ignatius. this is about an hour. [applause] >> so, foreign minister is your firsts event back. this cannot have been the easiest year that you have spent. as the audienc
wireline firelight -- environments that really connect us all. i would say that americans future is the wireline future. >> tonight on the communicators, on c-span2. >> i got upset with the they called itse my mental health the first few meetings i had. woman who is one of the press people. said, nobody ever covers my meetings, she said it is not a sexy issue. we toured the country, found out what was needed in terms of the mental, and past health systems act of 1980. it passed...